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56 National Newsagent September 2009
SHOP FOCUS
51 years a newsagent
How can you be a newsagent for 51 years and come out smiling?
Paul and Annette Tierney tell you how
After 51 years in the newsagency
game, Paul and Annette Tierney
have sold their Parkes newsagencies and
gone travelling.
Well, they never really stopped
travelling over the years but are about
to embark on an exciting adventure on
a Silver Seas cruise around Scotland,
Orkney Isles, Shetland Isles, Norwegian
islands, Iceland and Greenland, finishing
with a trip to Canada and the US.
“We will come home earlier if the money
runs out,” Paul said. “And then retire to
Caves Beach.”
This trip, and the 29 other overseas
trips the Tierney’s have made over 51
years, is the reward for the many years
of seven day a week newsagency work.
Paul recounts how some things have
changed and some (such as service with
a smile) remain the same and he gives
some advice for newsagents of today.
It’s a good business
“The business has been very kind to us,
although we have worked seven days a
week we have also had our holidays. We
have had a week’s golf with friends most
years as well as overseas holidays, this
year being the 29th overseas trip. We
have always felt there has to be a reward
for all the work and fortunately we both
enjoy overseas travel. We have
educated our three children and all
have university degrees.
“It’s part of work–life balance,”
Paul said.
Delivery horse kicks car
“We actually had a paper boy doing
one of the runs on a horse in 1958 but